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Below are new booklets NOW.

Visit ~ What's New at Longhouse Fall 2009

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WATCH FOR
FORTHCOMING
NEW TITLES
BY

THOMAS MEYER, JOHN LEVY, ANDREW SCHELLING, TOM CLARK, BOB ARNOLD, AUSTIN SMITH, JONATHAN GREENE, THOMAS A CLARK, JANINE POMMY VEGA, GUY BIRCHARD, CID CORMAN

Bill Porter, The Great Kashgar Bus Convoy — a two booklet wrap of Bill's travels in China on the Silk Road, where he has also drawn from ancient poetry & texts translated as Red Pine.

"In the Fall of 1992 Finn Wilcox and I set out on the Silk Road from its eastern terminus in Sian/Xian. Four weeks later, we were sitting in the lobby of the Chini Bagh Hotel in Kashgar. We had traveled as far west in China as we could go and were waiting for word on how to proceed to our final destination, which was Islamabad. The Karakoram Highway was the only road there, and it had been closed by landslides more than a month. And there were no flights."







Gary Hotham, Sand Over Sand —Whether Maryland, Germany, Norway, small poems go with Gary — this single leaf foldout of a dozen new poems.




sunrise –

a moth that didn't get

out of the room



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within hearing —

new leaves

a day older



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which star

—

which star

further

Gerry Loose, Starworks — Gerry on his houseboat, wood's trail, or town walk blown this way from Scotland — double leaf catch of many many poems.





soft owl calls in dawn snow just

so & snow calling dawn owls in



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the pond's interior has two herons

inside I swim slow air



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leaves still on the tree wind mooching

as far as they're able I'm rooted here








Bob Arnold, My Sweetest Friend — A triple brochure wrap of 38 poems as one-long-poem tribute, concerning the sudden loss of an older sister who was once a close childhood friend.


HONOR

let me tell you one thing about suicide

if a loved one has the guts or the heartbreak
to pull this off, you better have the same to
say this is how it all ended

even if you argue with her or him in your mind
every day as you bake bread
rake leaves
drive to work
return library books
tie your shoes
walk a cross walk
mail a letter
split wood
and try to sing in the shower again









Jason Clark, Abandoned Kingdoms 1-6 — Jason's artist notebook of abandoned tree houses from the northern woods — six portraits on fold-out leaf with the artist's text, and one poem by Bob Arnold.

















Bob Arnold, On Which~Way Trail — love poems from the woods and the trail. 24 poems wrapped in a variation of handmade covers and endpapers.



THE GARDEN


I see her out a window the one I love
She sees me and smiles

Looks to me again and smiles

Really, she was leaning to look
At the start of spring lettuce



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BEING HUMAN


Seeing this —
let me today

if only for a
few moments

twirl like
this autumn

leaf, midair
just like

that, with-
out a care


Visit ~ What's New at Longhouse Fall 2009